Our Services
Commercial Law Services
Corporate and Commercial
Our corporate and commercial advisory services include:
- Business start-up and structuring
- Investment, capital raising and financing;
- Debt and securitisation;
- Corporate governance, legal risk management and regulatory matters;
- Business restructuring;
- Business/asset and share sales;
- Mergers and Acquisitions;
- Schemes of Arrangement and Takeovers;
- Joint Venture arrangements;
- Legal and Commercial due diligence;
- Contractual drafting and negotiation;
- Mediation and resolution of commercial disputes between commercial stakeholders.
Class Actions
Our class action services include:
- Identifying and developing potential class-action opportunities;
- Sourcing lead applicants for potential and existing class-action opportunities;
- Conduct of class-action proceedings in Federal and State Supreme Courts;
- Settlement of class-action proceedings.
Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Our litigation and dispute resolution services include:
- Advising on, acting and appearing in legal proceedings in both Federal and State Supreme Courts with regard to disputes in all areas of commercial law, including but not limited to:
- Financial services and enforcement;
- Contractual disputes;
- Consumer law;
- Fraud proceedings;
- Professional negligence disputes.
- Pre-litigation risk assessment and prospects advice;
- Pre-litigation alternative dispute resolution.
Competition
Our competition law services include:
- Advising on all aspects of compliance with statutory and common law obligations with regard to competition law in Australia, including cartel practices, restrictive trade practices and commercial restraints;
- Representing clients in legal proceedings arising out of competition issues.
Land and Construction
Our land and construction services include:
- Due diligence on, and acting in relation to, land or property acquisitions and disposals;
- Liaison and facilitation with consultants and experts on relevant planning and local government compliance advice;
- Dispute resolution in relation to planning issues including litigation in the land and environment court of New South Wales and related jurisdictions;
- Drafting and negotiating project delivery agreements;
- Drafting and negotiating joint venture agreements;
- Advising on multi-party collaboration in property development or commercialisation
Land-based corporate finance (institutional and non-institutional); - Drafting, advising on and negotiating mortgages, charges and other securities;
- Drafting and advising on construction contracts and subcontracts;
- Security of payments compliance for both claimants and respondents;
- Resolution of construction-based disputes;
- Advice on affectations on land including caveats, easements (both registered and unregistered), mortgages, covenants and potential encumbrances on title in any form;
- Residual finance facilities;
- Refinance of construction projects;
- Lender/financier liaison.
Intellectual Property
Our intellectual property services include:
- Drafting, advising on the negotiating software licence agreements;
- Drafting, advising on and negotiating licence agreements for commercial property the subject of statutory monopolies;
- Brand protection, including advising on copyright, trade-mark and patent issues;
- Registration and securing of statutory intellectual property interests in Australia and internationally.
Employment
Our employment law services include:
- Drafting and negotiating contracts of employment for both employers and employees;
- Advice in relation to all aspects of employment relationships, including dispute resolution.
Insurance
Our insurance law services include:
- Advice in relation to indemnity issues;
- Dispute resolution in relation to indemnity issues;
- Professional Indemnity claims.
Insolvency
Our insolvency law services include:
- Advising on solvency issues faced by businesses, in particular, in the property sector;
- Advice in relation to preference payments;
- Filing and setting aside of Statutory Demands;
- Collaborating and resolving disputes with liquidators, trustees in bankruptcy and other appointed insolvency officers.
